McKenzie Midge

“But how can you walk away from something and still come
back to it?"
"Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the
world. You start out walking away from something and end up
coming back to it."
"Small world," said Coraline.
"It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have
to be large enough to catch flies."
Coraline shivered.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had been, back then.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls